UNSPEAKABLE CHAOS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14642, 21 February 1918, Page 5

UNSPEAKABLE CHAOS.

SATURNALIA OF CRIME AND

VIOLENCE.

PERSECUTION OF PROPERTY

OWNERS

("The Times.' 7)

(Received Feb. 20, 5.5 p.m.)

London, Feb. 19.

Delayed messages from Peb-ograd reflect unspeakable chaos ovmg to- the ■unbridled licence of hordes of Red Guards, wholesale robberies and confiscations.

Owrers of more than three horses, or four sheep, or two pigs, aro heavily taxed. The Soviets and Peasants' Committee get 25 per cent, of tire proceeds.

A perfect saturnalia of murder, outrage, and robbery continues. As the result of the simplification of divorce proceedings there have been 38,000 applications for divorce in three months.

The Bolsheviki are despatching numerous Cossack battalions ie the Don to assist the workers aguist l\.ik*<liii.